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JAIPUR IS CONSIDERED BY MANY URBANISMS TO BE ONE OF THE BEST PLANNED CITIES IN INDIA. THE CITY WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1729 BY MAHARAJA JAISINGH AS THE NEW CAPITAL OF KACHWAHA DYNASTY.

IN THE 19TH CENTURY THE CITY GREW RAPIDLY AND BECAME PROSPEROUS;BY 1900 IT HAD A POPULATION OF 160,000.THE CITY’S WIDE BOULEVARDS WERE PAVED AND LIT WITH GAS. JAIPUR WAS PAINTED PINK BY MAHARAJA MAN SINGH WHEN PRINCE OF WALES, LATER EDWARD VII, VISITED JAIPUR IN 1876. THE ROYAL HERITAGE OF JAIPUR LIVES IN ITS ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURE.

THE TOWN OF JAIPUR IS, IN FACT, BUILT IN THE FORM OF A EIGHT-PART MANDALA KNOWN AS THE ‘PITHAPADA’.NINE SIGNIFIES THE 9 PLANETS OF THE ANCIENT ASTROLOGICAL ZODIAC.

IT IS ALSO KNOWN THAT SAWAI JAI SINGH WAS A GREAT ASTRONOMER AND A TOWN PLANNER, AND HENCE THE ‘PITHAPADA’.ALSO, THE COMMERCIAL SHOPS ARE DESIGNED IN MULTIPLES OF NINE(27), HAVING ONE CROSS STREET FOR A PLANET.

FIRST ORDER STREET DEFINES THE SECTOR SIZE; SECOND ORDER STREET DEFINES THE NEIGHBORHOOD OR BLOCK. GRIDIRON SYSTEM IS USED FOR ROAD NETWORK FOR PROCESSION PATHS, WHICH IS RELEVANT TODAY FOR VEHICULAR TRAFFIC.

FURTHER IN PRESENT SYSTEM OF HIERARCHY OF ROADS PROBLEMS RELATED TO TRAFFIC ARE MINIMUM.INTERNAL ROAD NETWORK HAVE HIERARCHY IN TERMS OF ACCESS AND PRIVACY, HENCE AT THE SAME TIME SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD IS CREATED. ALL THE STREETS HAVE CERTAIN CHARACTER THAT CREATES EVERY STREET IDENTIFIABLE.

AMENITIES ARE PROVIDED WITH RESPECT TO KING AND UPPER CLASS INSTEAD OF COMMON MAN.

AMENITIES ARE PROVIDED ON MAIN ROAD, WITHIN 5 MINUTE WALKING DISTANCE. PLACEMENT OF AMENITIES WAS DONE WITH RESPECT TO FUNCTION, USE AND TRAFFIC.

FURTHER JUXTAPOSITION HAS CREATED DISTINCT NODES AND ACTIVITY LANDMARKS, WHICH ULTIMATELY HAS CREATED DEFINED PATH.THUS SOCIALLY INTERACTIVE SPACES ARE CREATED BY DESIGN, BUILT FORM DEFINITION, OPEN SPACE PATTERN AND ROAD PATTERN.

JAIPUR IS AN EXAMPLE OF DICTATORIAL PLANNING AND DESIGN.PLOTS ARE ALWAYS KEPT IN PROPORTION WITH RESPECT TO HIERARCHY OF ROADS.IT HAS ACHIEVED A REGULAR SIZE AND SHAPE OF PLOT FOLLOWED BY UNIFORM BUILT FORM, HENCE PLOT SIZE AND SHAPE, LOCATION GIVES COHERENCE.

SUBDIVISION OF SUBPLOTS WITH CONTROL ON SIZE AND SHAPE IS REQUIRED.THE STRUCTURE OF CITY IS DENSE YET POROUS IN NATURE.COMPACT BUILT FORM WITH PLOT EDGE-TO-EDGE CONSTRUCTION WITH COURTYARD IS LOGICAL IN HOT CLIMATE.